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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="-1">Hello Colleagues,</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="-1">Please consider
submitting an abstract to a topical session at the 2008 GSA meeting. </font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small>T185. Teaching with
New Tools: Visualizations, Models,
Online Data, Games, and More (Posters)<o:p></o:p></small></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small>Technology
offers new opportunities for teaching geoscience
through data access, data visualization and manipulation, and virtual
environments. This session will showcase our use of these new tools in
geoscience education at all levels.<br>
</small></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small>Geoscience
today is a space-age science making extensive use
of remote sensing data, remotely collected data, high performance
computing,
and state of the art data visualizations. These new research tools can
often be
accessed on-line making them particularly suitable for use in teaching.<span
style=""> </span>Technology also offers exciting new
opportunities for teaching through the use of virtual environments,
gaming, and
other forms of virtual communication.<span style=""> </span>As
we move into a new era of teaching with these tools, this session will
highlight the innovations currently taking place in geoscience
classrooms.<span style=""> </span>The session builds on three On the
Cutting
Edge workshops taking place this year:<span style="">
</span>Teaching with New Geoscience Tools: Visualizations, Models and
Online
Data; New Worlds for Geoscience Teaching: Using Online Games and
Environments.</small><small><br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small>The abstract
submission deadline is June 3, 2008 at midnight eastern time. For more
information or to submit your abstract, visit<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2008/sessions/topical.asp">http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2008/sessions/topical.asp</a><br>
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<p><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Sincerely,<br>
Cathryn A. Manduca, Karin B. Kirk, Susan Buhr, and Mark
Leckie</font></small></p>
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